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By Khaleda Rahman
National Correspondent
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Former President Donald Trump has no lead among male voters in Wisconsin, according to a new poll.
The poll found that Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee, is leading Trump by 3 percentage points in the key battleground state, 48 percent to 45 percent.
The survey, which was conducted before Harris announced Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, found that the same amount of male voters—46 percent—would vote for her as they would the Republican nominee if the election were held "today."
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The poll of 800 registered voters was conducted by RMG Research, Inc., between July 31 and August 5. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
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The Harris and Trump campaigns have been contacted for comment via email.
Harris is the first woman to serve as vice president and would be the first female president in history if she wins the White House in November.
Polling from July suggested Harris would struggle to get as much support from male voters as Trump.
More recent polling has also indicated that Harris would not do as well with male voters as Trump. A The Economist/YouGov poll conducted between August 4 and 6 found Harris leading Trump by 2 percentage points nationally, but that 40 percent of male voters would vote for Harris while 48 percent would support Trump. The poll surveyed 1,618 adults and has a 3 percent margin of error.
Male voters have historically preferred Republican candidates, while women voters have favored the Democratic candidate in every presidential election since 1996, according to the Center for American Women and Politics.
Democrats "need to develop messaging targeting men that focuses on the policy issues, not on Harris as the first female president" to win the male vote, Carrie Baker, a professor of women, gender and sexuality at Smith College in Massachusetts, previously told Newsweek.
A recent study by the left-wing Young Men Research Initiative said that Democrats could make inroads with young men by changing how they speak about issues the demographic supports.
That survey, conducted with YouGov, found that men aged between 18 and 29 support Harris over Trump by 2 percentage points, 38 percent to 36 percent. But it found that those registered to vote favored Harris, while those not registered supported Trump.
It also found that young men were more likely to support a female candidate when presented with arguments about the candidate's support for high-paying jobs and affordable housing, rather than when they were presented with arguments centered around the importance of having the first female president.
The study's author argues that the trend of young men "drifting away from Democrats should be of huge concern to candidates up and down the ballot."
They wrote: "For progressives to be competitive, we need to change both what and how we communicate with young men. And we need to make long term investments in studying how those opinions are being shaped."
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